More English Fairy Tales, English Variants of Cinderella, sentence 9
Helpful Ill-treated _Henwife aid.
What happens: treat · To what, where: Henwife aid
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, English Variants of Cinderella. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | Ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 treated | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ill | punct |
| 4 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Helpful | conj |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 aid | punct |
| 6 | Henwife | henwife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aid | compound |
| 7 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 treated | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Helpful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | participle | Henwife aid | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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